Like Carles Riba, who expressed his desire to have his "blessed condition of a poet faithful to the language" inscribed on his tombstone, I would also like to be remembered as a "musician faithful to the land." This is the meaning of these 12 Catalan folk songs that I composed between 1996 and 1999, following in the footsteps of our great guitarist Miquel Llobet.

In fact, my former disciple, the Japanese guitarist Sinichi Fukuda, proposed to me to compose a new version of the same twelve popu...